On Fri, Nov 25 2016, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19 2016, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > >> This is an answer to the discussion we were having on irc the other day about easily installing the emacs front-end for a single user. >> >> For users of package.el supporting emacs (iirc, emacs 24.1+), you can >> >> 1) make elpa >> 2) From within emacs M-x package-install-file <return> the-tarball-produced-in-step-1 <return> >> >> That's it, no modifications of paths etc... required. >> >> [PATCH 1/2] build: Move variable definitions to Makefile.global >> >> This looks big, but it's just code movement. Of course with makefiles >> moving things around is not without peril, so test builds in various >> corner cases (e.g. not current Debian) would be a good idea > > Series LGTM (especially Makefile.global) (you could amend copying Makefile.global for out of tree builds -- or use include $(srcdir)/Makefile.global) > > Worked without hiccups on SL6.2) > > Tomi